L’enfant et la ville : notes introductoires by Marie-Soleil Cloutier, Juan Torres

“…Through a short presentation of the various articles which make up this number, the authors provide an overview of the main issues that emerge from studies which include the mobility of primary school children as seen by the town planner, the psychologist’s view of the socialization of traffic risk as it affects the child pedestrian, the consideration to be given to adolescents when designing or developing urban neighbourhoods, the survival strategies practiced by young itinerant workers in the urban surroundings of a developing country, and the impact of traffic “pacifying” measures on children in a context of urban geography.…”
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Touristic development of the La Lopé National Park (Gabon) in light of the SWOT analysis by Jędrusik Maciej, Lisowski Andrzej, Mouketou-Tarazewicz Dieudonné, Ropivia Marc-Louis, Zagajewski Bogdan

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The origins of academic work on tourism: an European perspective by Leszek Butowski

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Allotment gardening in Poland – new practices and changes in recreational space by Mokras-Grabowska Justyna

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Toward a Politics of Accountability: Feminist ethics of care and whiteness in Detroit's foreclosure crisis by Rachel Baker

“…Speaking through critical race studies, urban geography and feminist theory, a feminist ethics of care will be deconstructed alongside what I call a “politics of accountability”, as a framework for action and analysis.…”
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Of Sensors and Sensitivities. Towards a Cosmopolitics of “Smart Cities”? by Tomás Sánchez Criado, Martin Tironi

“…This essay reviews diverse strands of empirical and theoretical work in different urban studies areas (urban planning, urban ethnography, urban geography, and STS) reflecting on the manifold ways in which the smart city project is being “opened up” for scrutiny through experimental projects developing digitally-mediated sensing practices of either a specific or broad kind: i.e., producing both devices formally devised for sensing specific parameters, and sensing devices – emerging from less specific digital technology arrangements – used to share experiences, show solutions or politicize different urban issues. …”
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Neo-liberalism (s), socio-spatial transformation and violence reduction in Cape Town – lessons from Medellin by Mercy Brown-Luthango

“…Some of the contemporary debates within urban geography is around the changing nature of neoliberalism, how cities have become the new sites for capitalist accumulation through new forms of neoliberal urban governance and whether or not this holds true for cities in the global South. …”
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Fractal Characteristic Evolution of Coastal Settlement Land Use: A Case of Xiamen, China by Xiaojian Yu, Zhiqing Zhao

“…This study might provide a theoretical basis for understanding the fractal characteristic evolution of coastal settlements in urban areas and show its potential application in urban geography.…”
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A Multidisciplinary Educational Itinerary in Madrid: Validation with Trainee Teachers by Carlos Martínez-Hernández, Claudia Yuvero, Franciso Javier Robles Moral

“…Findings include high levels of acquisition of new multidisciplinary knowledge and a highly favorable view of the itinerary, its components, and the effectiveness of the urban geography activity in understanding the touristification of cities. …”
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Identifying the Socio-Spatial Logics of Foreclosed Housing Accumulated by Large Private Landlords in Post-Crisis Catalan Cities by Aaron Gutiérrez, Antoni Domènech

“…Our findings provide a detailed urban geography of the housing accumulated by banks which, at the same time, correspond to areas in which the vulture funds are focusing their business in the present and in the forthcoming years. …”
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À la recherche des chronotopes du roman urbain. Une cartographie des Mystères de Bruxelles (1845-1846) by Paul Aron, Laurence Brogniez, Tatiana Debroux, Jean-Michel Decroly, Christophe Loir

“…It also opens up fertile prospects for collaborative research between social history, literature and urban geography.…”
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Accessibility of public services in districts of Warsaw: a comparative study by Małachowski Aleksander, Dąbski Maciej, Wilk Waldemar

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The geography of urban environmental protection in Slovenia: The case of Ljubljana by Aleš Smrekar, Mateja Breg Valjavec, Katarina Polajnar Horvat, Jernej Tiran

“…This paper uses findings from sustainability studies to present the development of environmental urban geography in Slovenia in recent decades. Modern European cities, of which Ljubljana is no exception, depart significantly from sustainable development concepts. …”
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Advances in the Measurement of Transport Impedance in Accessibility Modelling by Karst T. Geurs, John Östh

“…Many different accessibility definitions and operationalisations in accessibility models and instruments have in the past decades been developed and applied by researchers from several academic fields (e.g., urban geography, rural geography, health geography, time geography, spatial economics, transport engineering) and transport and urban planners (e.g., see for reviews Geurs and van Wee, 2004; Páez et al., 2012; Papa et al., 2016).…”
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Modelovanie migračných tokov do Európy a ich súvis s klimatickou zmenou / Modelling of Migration Flows to Europe within the Context of the Climate Change by Štefan Luby

“…Their flow to Europe is studied as one-dimensional transport using the phenomenological theory of diffusion and by gravity model employed in urban geography. Diffusion of migrants is quantified by the diffusion coefficient expressed as [km2/day], appropriate also for the characterization of historical transfers of nations along large territories. …”
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Market-Based Housing Reforms and the Residualization of Public Housing: The Experience of Lodz, Poland by Agnieszka Ogrodowczyk, Szymon Marcińczak

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(Re)forming the Inside/Outside: On Place as a Governable Domain through Sports-Based Interventions by David Ekholm, Magnus Dahlstedt

“…These places are made distinct from the rest of the surrounding cities via material and symbolic borders, directing the movement of people within the urban geography. These differentiations underpin attributions of the areas in terms of otherness and exclusion from the rest of society, localising a variety of problematisations to the demarcated areas. …”
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The Political Mission of Contemporary Urban Statuary. Image, History and Territorial Identity in Montpellier (France) by Laurent Viala

“…Finally, in line with the critical urban geography developed, it results in three political effects of the statuary: the first formulates new principles for public-spiritedness and civility through the citadinity; secondly, in a form of paradox, these statues tell a story about the future of the city; last, it shows how a political leader makes space a political one.…”
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Mapping the clouds: the matter of data centers by Constance Carr, Desmond Bast, Karinne Madron, Ahmad Mafaz Syrus

“…The social spatial geographies of telecommunications and their infrastructures have long interested scholars in the social sciences, and in urban geography specifically. This paper focuses on data centers. …”
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Proposition pour un archétype urbain logico-géographique : l’association « logique trichotomique -logique ternaire antagoniste » et son intérêt géographique by Henri Reymond, Colette Cauvin

“…Our previous papers showed the interest of using both structural binary logic and, particularly, processual ternary logic to apprehend resilience in urban geography. This paper is an in depth exploration of the association of S. …”
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